Editing existing notes

With the latest Evernote for iPhone release, you can edit existing plain text notes; append text to notes that contain images, audio, or other rich content; and change tags or notebooks for existing notes –all directly on the iPhone.

To edit a note, open it and click on the new Edit Note icon in the lower right corner.

Shiny new audio recorder

The audio recorder is completely redesigned, making it significantly more user friendly and intuitive. We increased the maximum recording time to 5 minutes, added a level meter, gave it some nice thumb-friendly buttons, and made the whole thing a lot easier to use.

Note upload options

We learned that some of our users pay a hefty price for cellular data transfers. Since we’re in the business of improving your memory, not emptying your wallet, we’ve added the option to choose whether notes are sync’d over cellular networks or only when connected to WiFi. This setting is located in the Account screen.

Faster uploads

We’ve significantly improved our image and audio compression, which translates into uploads that are nearly 4X faster than in previous versions.

Other improvements and fixes

Take a call or quit the application without losing your work

Note list automatically displays any newly created notes

Fixed a bunch of “Pending note” issues

Thanks everyone for the great feedback. Please keep the ideas and suggestions coming. Now that we’ve got the 1.2 release out, we’re rolling up our sleeves and getting started on the biggest task: letting you have local storage of notes right on your iPhone. Stay tuned.

btw. If you are looking for a kick ass feature to add, how about back end server conversion of documents, like word documents, pdf documents, power points etc to evernote notes. that way I could take any material with me and read it where ever I am and I would not suffer from the perils of the apaling pdf reader in my itouch or the lack of a word / ppt reader. (I know this is probably too much to wish for – but it has to be almost as useful as a flashlight feature you have promised us)

it says that i can’t edit note, cause there are images and or formatations in the note. when will that be fixed?

I’m an administrator and i would like to use evernote on my mac and iphone as a ticket, task AND knowhow library. specially for tasks and my little knowhow articles i would like to add screenshots and so on.

if i have a note with an image in it i can’t edit it on my iphone, i’m just able to add text, but can’t see the old text in the note

Sync is good, and I especially like the sync-only-over-wifi support. However, as Vonod pointed out, missing offline storage definitely prevents me from using it. I bet I will be very frustrated by no access to my notes when the wireless network is not good or even not available. In brief, I will wait until the next release drops.

I think the only reason why local caching/storage of notes wasn’t added is that images (which would comprise a huge percentage of people’s notes, I would think…) could add up to a crazy amount of MBs. Still, I would really prefer for Evernote to take the place of OmniFocus on my iPhone

One more vote for offline storage – I need to be able to access my notes quickly, and over EDGE or GPRS, this can take forever. When this is added, I will buy a subscription. Otherwise, keep going, you rock!

Great update folks! A bunch of welcome changes. Like others have said too, great post! Came here just to comment after reading about it over Twitter and NetNewsWire. But also like others, I still can’t use it as my main note-taker until I see that local storage like the Mac version.

I’m really looking forward to the next version! Keep up the great work.

BTW, to all of you that use more than one notebook: why? Tags are much more powerful than notebooks. The only reason I’d use one is to keep some notes on a machine instead of on the Evernote server. I moved all my notes into one notebook and started using tags exclusively, and the experience is much better.

Echoing the sentiment on offline storage. I didn’t realize it didn’t exist until I tried to read my grocery list in the store and my touch couldn’t connect to anything! At the very least, please let us tag notes to be stored locally. Just text notes would be fine with me, but probably not everyone.
Thanks!

1. For those who have the 500 mb/monthly limit, is it possible to increase the 5 min recording time? Perhaps like 1 hour or something (having the option to control audio quality, lower quality = longer recording time).

2. Local storage would be AMAZING. I’m so happy you guys are working on that.

3. Indexing Audio Notes (is that even possible?)

4. Having Columns within the notes. (Left for notes, right for tasks or something).

5. TELL APPLE TO MAKE AN IPHONE BLUETOOTH KEYBOARD…that would be amazing, LOL.

Hey best app ever made! One thing I wish would be made and the one thing keeping me from buying a full account is the ability to save notes to iphone. Many times I do not have wifi but need to remember a note. Or I am out of coverage and wanted to check something. I realize that saving all the notes would take up a whole lot of space. But if you could select which ones you would like to save to memory that would be so useful!

1. It doesn’t remember notes for when I’m away from a network (I have an iPod Touch), which is much of the time. If I can’t see my notes, it’s rather pointless.

2. As soon as a note has any formatting, it’s existing content cannot be edited again. In the worst case, even if there were a way to discard the formatting to be able to edit it, that would at least make it usable.

Once those basics are taken care of, the next enhancement I’d suggest is the ability to quickly sketch ink notes on the touch screen. If you could have ink notes on the Mac client also, then we’d have a killer app here!

Please consider adding offline storage of ALL the synced notes on the iPhone

I can’t comprehend why the ability to simply edit and snyc notes and have synced notes available for edit COMPLETELY OFFLINE WITHOUT ANY TYPE OF INTERNET CONNECTION WHATSOEVER is not #1 on the list of features to implement. What if I’m in Europe and I don’t have an edge/wifi connection available? The application will be unusable in that case to look up my stored notes. The only notes solution I can currently use is putting notes in Things for Iphone.

If this feature was implemented, this would be a brilliant app and I would pay for it.

Evernote for the iPhone is a great start but it won’t be complete until you add offline/ local storage. I need to be able to access my notes even if I don’t have network access. Thanks for making great software.

And yet another vote for offline access. To me the very point of creating these notes (as opposed to surfing the web for them or accessing one’s email account) is to be able to access them when out of range or roaming.

Would be nice to hear something back from Evernote on this (such as “we’re working on it”, “never” or “in version X”).

One more vote for offline access! and this iPhone note taking application will be absolutely perfect.
You don’t always get reception/wifi/etc plus maybe will want to work with notes on the airplane or abroad…
Have notes cashed/pre-loaded into the internal memory will make it perfect.
As an example – before going abroad i places all the places i want to visit into Evernote… and did not get roaming data (was not supported) – all the notes got locked on your servers and I had to run around to look for internet cafe…

Local note storage is a must – I have an iPod Touch, and currently I can’t access my notes unless I’m on WiFi. Your program is totally worth paying for with local storage, really not worth having on my device at all without it. For me (and hell, this *is* all about me) Evernote does what Notes on the Touch *should* do – sync notes between my Touch and the rest of my machines. But without local storage, I’m can only access the information when I have WiFi – which means I’m at work or home…which means I can use the machines that have the information on them in the first place to get the information, instead of looking at it on a tiny screen.

That said, I’m willing to bet $100 Apple is preventing Evernote from having local storage because that would “duplicate the functionality of the Notes feature,” (although it doesn’t). I’m willing to bet another $100 that Evernote isn’t even allowed to say that because the developer agreement prevents them from explaining to all of us that Apple is jerking them around.

First and foremost, GREAT APP. Thank you for all of the hard work you guys have already put in. This is by far the best note app to date on the iPhone. That said, below are a few things I think would even further enhance the application:

1) Another vote for offline storage/editing/creation
2) Email Notes (as attachments)
3) A Pause button for audio recording.
4) Improved text recognition. I try to use it a often, but it’s just not there yet.
5) Speech recognition for voicenotes.
6) To-Do lists

Overall, this is a GREAT application. With the addition of the features above, I don’t see why anyone would want another note application for the iphone. That said, I would like to see some additional features built into the Mac client for evernote, but that’s beyond the scope of this article.

I’m probably missing something. The other day, I entered a long list into a new note on my iphone. I switched to my calendar for a moment, planning to resume work on my list after switching back to Evernote. However, I hadn’t saved the new note. When I switched back, the new note I had been working on was gone, along with all the information I had entered. Is there any way to temporarily save the contents on the iphone as one types, and before one saves the note to the website? Many apps save information even when one is using another app (map saves my location, many games save my progress in the game, etc.). Thanks.

Can I use evernote to transfer inotes from my iphone to a new iphone 3g. I want to transfer existing notes in the notes of the iphone. Can I copy them into evernote? It looks like you have to start with evernote, and that it will not copy notes from the iphone that are pre-existing.

I have sent an Email to my Evernote email address from my iPhone and in fact the email shows up in my Evernote on the iPhone
but
the email has Word Document attached and after trying a bunch of things I cannot find a way to View the attached document in EVERNOTE
Any tips or guidence greatly appreciatted

Hi,
I know this blog is about iPhone but I have Evernote on an Android and I can’t see how to Edit a note.

Any help would be most welcome as I want to suggest this product to two companies I’m working with but need to make sure anyone in the group can access and edit a note. Preferably add an audio message to a note.